Quotes About Parents

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

I guess its the same with all children really, they have this sort of pathetic longing to be like their parents were.

I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.

I grew up being very patriotic. My parents really love this country. A big part of what they love is freedom of speech... I'm fearless because aren't we supposed to be able to speak our mind?

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.

Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!

My parents were in the Peace Corps.

My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.

Sometimes I get the feeling that some parents really think their son can pay for their pension, especially being in London.

Parents are the perfect people to talk to. They have no hidden agendas.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

My parents were dead set against my becoming a professional performer before I finished college. They felt the most important thing a girl can have in any career is education.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later.

The parts of life that are suffocating', Angeliki said, 'are so often the parts that are the projection of our parents' own desires